As CSP Today Sevilla 2012 continues to expand, CSP Today is delighted to announce that the Chilean Ministry of Energy has officially confirmed its participation as part of the international delegation representing the Chilean CSP market, at the premier International Concentrated Solar Thermal Power.

The cost, weight and volume of lithium ion cells can be reduced by using a low cost, high rate separator. Cells using the Dreamweaver Silver™ separator and electrodes that were 20% thicker gave similar discharge performance over a range of rates. In this paper, the material costs of manufacturing these cells are compared, and result is that the cell using the Dreamweaver separator is 6% lighter, has 4% less volume, has 17% lower foil costs and 42% lower separator costs, resulting in 16% lower total material costs. For higher power cells, the savings could be up to 20% of material costs. For common automotive batteries, the savings could be 8 – 42 kg and $608 - $3,240/automobile.

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